Strange Highways was a project I conceived in the late nineties. I’ll take an excerpt from the forthcoming book to explain:
In my younger days, I was a musician and did a lot of solo driving. I enjoyed the driving more than playing live. Around 1999, I stumbled upon some new music software that was uniquely suited for soundtrack style compositions and I was very interested in getting into soundtrack work. I decided to put together a concept album called Strange Highways. It would be about things that used to run through my head as I drove throughout the night. I always wondered what might have happened at some of the ruins I’d see along the
highways. Not knowing, and not having time to stop, I would make up my own stories – or scenes might be a more appropriate term.
I released a limited run of Strange Highways on CD in 2001 with the plans of turning it into a side-show style walk through multi-media “ride” that would tour with bands, like as an opening act as you enter the concert venue.
Unfortunately, the budget to make this happen just wasn’t there and the concept slowly faded away.
The music stuck with me, though. So did driving. Even without being in a band, I found myself drawn to the road -my comfort zone. My happy place. I re-visited the Strange Highways album. In 2015, I had it remastered and released it under the band name RFH.
Strange Highways is currently still available on all major streaming platforms.
